[quote=Bolt_PT";p="256093"]First of all, I went to cow level (nightmare) with my zon. There are only some kind of barbs named script kiddies that give 0 exp ( or close to it, my exp bar never moved, I was lvl 70 or so), drop nothing ( except their "king" or whatever, it dropped some magic items and 1\2 rares i think).[/quote]
I didn't want the cow level to be too useful, since it's just a bonus area to begin with and farming a bonus area for anything is stupid.
[quote=Bolt_PT";p="256093"]So, I am bound to ask: is it supposed to have any purpose, or it's just a feature like gambling, which is there but "almost" useless ( I can still get rare jewelery from there, and a small percentage of it can be useful ^^)?[/quote]
Gambling
weapons and fighter armor is useless.
[quote=Bolt_PT";p="256093"]Moving on, does the upgrade thingy work with all weapons and armor? Because I've wasted about 20 ith runes by now and haven't seen any effect till now (tried it on uniques and rares).[/quote]
There are reports that the upgrade recipes are indeed working, and anyway, a broken recipe should not eat the ingredients (Ith runes), but usually just fails to work altogether. What exactly is the problem for you?
[quote=Bolt_PT";p="256093"]I'd personally like to see more runewords and jewelwords in the future, and they'll probably come in once you get some inspiration
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Yep, in 1.07, in February.
[quote=Bolt_PT";p="256093"]I've also tried to kill baal with my bow attacks, but to no avail. Despite being lvl 70 and unable to find a better bow ( not that I had the greatest bow ever but you understand) I couldn't kill him.[/quote]
Baal has high physical resist to begin with (only half damage from physical attacks compared to nearby monsters), and if he keeps hitting your merc and spawning monsters, you won't be able to focus fire him in the first place.
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[quote=Volf";p="256099"]Baal sure was a tough nut, I just beat him in normal with a lvl 38 necro. Seemed fine first, a spammed hunting banshees and got around 1/4 of he's life down, then my merc got hit a few times and the room was filled with monsters[/quote]
Baal spawns 1 monster each time he hits anything, and has a fairly high attack rating. If your merc doesn't have the greatest armor, he'll land a lot of hits and fill the screen with monsters. In this case, just leave the merc dead after the first time he bites it. This also applies to necromancer shadows, which have <100 defense at high levels.
[quote=Volf";p="256099"]This was the best fight I ever had with Baal, was just so awesome when the rascal finally died (cant wait to fight him in nightmare)
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FYI, he used to have a special attack in Hell that spawned 10 monsters at once, this was removed a couple of patches ago (no really?).
[quote=Volf";p="256099"]he was eventually allot easier than Baal coz he's slower, even without anything to increase my run/walk speed I could easily stay away without getting hit, 15 minutes in to the fight Diablo always starts walking away from me, finally he ends up walking in to a corner and stays there using ranged attacks only, when this happens he's toast.
Hint, a slight increase in he's move velocity would make him twice as hard
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Diablo is mostly a spellcaster to begin with, and is supposed to use ranged attacks for most of the fight. Why he chooses to chase the character is something else.
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[quote=Bolt_PT";p="256111"]The fastest way to kill him is using spells.. RoL works surprisingly good because he stands there assaulting your merc. Without merc the task probably involves less of a risk, but takes more time as well.[/quote]
Fun fact: for a short time in 1.05, Mephisto used to summon monsters as a regular attack (as opposed to a melee attack) and had a
homing Punisher attack.
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Plans for 1.07 (Unlucky Seven Version):
> Two new innates for each character! I found a free column in charstats.txt, and Left Hand Throw will get the boot, so I can have five innates per character. One of the new innates is a regular one:
Amazon: [Vindicate] curses enemies to increase your damage on kills.
Assassin: [Rune of Ruin] trap that inflicts area weapon damage.
Barbarian: [Eagle Flight] launches multiple homing throwing axes.
Druid: [Seismic Field] arrow that radiates damage while in flight.
Necromancer: [Death Metal] fires weapon damage spikes from a corpse.
Paladin: [Lionheart] toggleable damage buff that slows you down.
Sorceress: [Pagan Heart] when active, mana pots also add energy.
'Uber' innates:
Each character will get one 'uber' innate, which have a very long skill delay that goes down with character level.
Amazon: [Suntouch] instant mana heal spell on a timer.
Assassin: [Spirit of Vengeance] turns a corpse into a meteor trap.
Barbarian: [Fortress] a circular wall with eight towers that shoot arrows.
Druid: [Awaken] improves target merc, minion or party member.
Necromancer: [Nightmare] greatly slows and weakens nearby foes.
Paladin: [Holy Insanity] when-struck state by cursed foes lasts longer.
Sorceress: [Moontouch] gives yourself the when-struck state.
> Existing innates modified:
- Bloodlust, MotW, Dark Power: life/mana penalty changed to a straight subtraction.
- Raven Heart: removed stun attack, added mana per kill.
> New potions, including some to clear skill timers or improve your innates.
> 'Deities': at level 30, you can choose between six mutually exclusive passives to enhance your character:
- ...Ice: +100% chill/freeze lengths.
- ...Light: +50% faster healing pots.
- ...Lore: improves modifiers on certain new runewords.
- ...Mysteries: +500 crafting points, unlocks bonus recipes.
- ...Vengeance: all skill timers -50%.
- ...War: adds +50% damage effect to healing potions.
> Improved crafting recipes, bugfixes to other recipes.
> New AI for Andariel and Mephisto.
> Monsters may spawn other monsters.
> ...
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. I tried using pandemonium for those mobs that don't follow me ( archers and stuff) but for some reason clubing them to death seems to be faster. I'm gonna look for another solution next week or so.